Katherine Baynes is a partner in DLA Piper's Finance practice, based in New York.

Joining DLA Piper from Nixon Peabody's Rochester, New York office, she concentrates her practice in infrastructure finance and public finance.

She represents government authorities, issuers and underwriters in connection with industrial development revenue bonds, civic facility revenue bonds, college and university bonds, hospital, health care and senior living bonds, other exempt facility bonds and multi-family housing bonds. She has also represented financial institutions issuing letters of credit and standby bond purchase agreements to support a variety of municipal bonds. She has structured and negotiated senior lien secured and unsecured debt, including credit facilities, exempt public offerings, limited offerings and private placements, as well as subordinated debt and related intercreditor arrangements.

Ms. Baynes has led or acted as a significant member of the team on many sophisticated tax-exempt municipal financings. Ms. Baynes was significantly involved in the New Jersey Nets Barclays Center financing and led the 2009 bond financing for the completion of the New York Mets Citi Field Ballpark.

In addition, Ms. Baynes has acted as company counsel in the refinancing of a waste-to-energy facility in Connecticut and as underwriter's counsel in the financing of a waste-to-energy cogeneration facility in Georgia as well as the taxable refinancing of the adjacent plant.

Ms. Baynes has acted as bond and transaction counsel to several New York State industrial development agencies, including agencies in New York City, Suffolk County, Westchester County, Dutchess County and Ontario County with respect to the issuance of a wide variety of tax-exempt and taxable debt. She has also acted as bond counsel to the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York and the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency. Ms. Baynes was the lead drafter of form documents for an unrated private placement program for the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York and acted as bond counsel for the first two bond issuances under the program.

Ms. Baynes is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts.